#fleuron

[postcard-from-the-past]

Méaty Fleuron on a vintage postcard

[kvetch19]

[inexplicably-spookified]

experiment

[artlipsis]

misc. art relating to my cave story mod, evergreen

play the demo now!!!

[betzs-things]

Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris

[snakegirllovehandles]

I drove for meals on wheels again today, after a long stretch when I couldn't because my car had a severe oil leak.

It's nice to be doing that again.

🙞-------------------------------------------🙜

I went to an estate sale on the way back from the meals on wheels office.

I'm feeling kind of strange, thinking about all the things I learned about the person who's estate it was just by seeing the stuff that was for sale.

She was a musician. Played jazz saxophone. She had lots of costume jewelry. She had a dog. In her last years she was bed bound or nearly so. She was born in the 30s, judging by the photograph I saw. And she had either grandchildren or nieces & nephews.

And, I think, she lived alone.

There's a strange feeling that I have, thinking about these things. The passage of time. Death, the end of connection between people. It's like sadness, but it's also like, reflection. Wistfulness, the barest hint of what it's like to watch a tragic play.

Finality, nostalgia, and a smidge of melancholy.

The old world blues.

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA La Presse di Oggi lunedì, 10 marzo 2025

[moyens]

Économisez presque 50% sur le fleuron de Motorola - Offre du Cyber ​​Monday!

La plupart d’entre nous choisissent rapidement les téléphones Samsung et Apple, mais il existe d’autres sociétés intermédiaires qui proposent des appareils d’un bon rapport qualité-prix. L’un d’eux est Motorola, qui a lancé son produit phare Edge+ l’année dernière, avec toutes les fonctionnalités haut de gamme que vous pouvez demander. Eh bien, un an plus tard, le Moto Edge+ coûte près de la…

[duardius]

fournier’s recutting

rococo ornamental composition from Les Caractères de L’Imprimerie, by fournier le jeune (pierre simone fournier) [paris, 1764, p9]; the finisher is his recutting of a renaissance ornament, one i call ‹a london ornament›—amazing how well a renaissance ornament harmonizes with the rococo! 2nd illustration shows a line of the ornament [ibid., p109].

with thanks to the british library for permitting my examination of their copy of Les Caractères de L’Imprimerie [1391.b.55.]

[prokopetz]

It's a bit misleading to say that it's "more specifically" a fleuron. A typographic element can be both a dinkus and a fleuron, but a fleuron is not a kind of dinkus; there are also fleurons which are not dinkuses (and vice versa).

Today I learned that there's a specific name for those floral-looking typographic widgets which are used to indicate a break or omission in a body of text, and you may be surprised to learn what that name is.

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[postcard-from-the-past]

Méaty Fleuron on a vintage postcard

[kvetch19]

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Here are some arrangements of printer's flowers, a few electrotype cuts, and a wood engraving from Printing from Metal and Wood, handprinted in 1985 by English type and printing enthusiast Mark Arman at his Workshop Press in Thaxted, Essex, in an edition of 145 copies signed by the author/printer. Arman writes:

The purpose of this book is to illustrate and use different type faces , to experiment with those of the 19th century which today would be unfashionable, and to re-create an interest in those wood blocks, fleurons and electros, which were in use at the turn of the century. It is a book concerned with styles of printing and design which are no longer popular, but it is a book which owes its very existence to the author's delight in printing, type, layout and design.

Our copy of this book is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other books from the estate of Dennis Bayuzick.

View other posts on work by Mark Arman.

View other posts with type ornaments.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

[artlipsis]

misc. comics, pt 2

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fleurons after a fashion